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GUEST OPINION: ENACTING “MILLIONAIRES’ TAXES” WILL SET BACK STATE RECOVERIES

Written by CHARLES CHIEPPO AND JIM STERGIOS Posted March 10, 2021 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics

"LC-USZ62-69050 African Amercian Newspaper Boy 1921" by Children's Bureau Centennial is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Connecticut’s travails in recent years, combined with the unprecedented mobility of wealth, makes it clear that millionaires’ taxes are a 20th-century solution to a 21st-century problem. Embracing them would only prolong states’ long-awaited recovery from the economic effects of COVID-19.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics Tagged With: conservative, criticism, Massachusetts, opinion, Pioneer Institute, policy, taxation, wealth tax

GUEST OPINION: TPS HOLDERS DESERVE PERMANENT PROTECTION

Written by DORIS REINA-LANDAVERDE Posted March 5, 2021 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

This is my home. We don’t deserve to live in perpetual fear.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: COVID, guest opinion, harvard, immigration, news, opinion

GUEST OPINION: GETTING RID OF WHITE SUPREMACY: A LONG-TERM PROJECT

Written by DARYL WRIGHT Posted February 4, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

This is a quest for knowledge, clearer thinking, and better interventions.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: news, opinion, Politics, racism, Trump

NO HONEYMOON FOR BIDEN: 1/20 PROTEST ON BOSTON COMMON, 4 PM

Written by MATTHEW ANDREWS Posted January 17, 2021 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics

Aerial View Parkman Bandstand at Boston Common. CC BY-SA 4.0 2017 by AbhiSuryawanshi.

On Inauguration Day a coalition of organizations are coming together to re-take the initiative for a progressive agenda with a rally on the Boston Common at 4 pm.

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics Tagged With: Boston, Boston Common, Donald Trump, Inauguration Day, Joe Biden, Massachusetts, opinion, Protest

GUEST OPINION: THE CASE FOR RENAMING FANEUIL HALL

Written by BARRY LAWTON Posted December 9, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

It is incredible that city leaders have not recognized the offense of whitewashing the deeds of Faneuil.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Faneuil Hall, history, Op-Ed, opinion

WHAT THANKSGIVING AND THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC SHARE

Written by JOSEPH NEVINS - SUREN MOODLIAR - ELENI MACRAKIS Posted November 24, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics

Massasoit statue, Plymouth, MA. Photo courtesy of the authors.

[B]oth the holiday’s development and epidemiological reasons for its present-day decline are rooted in a settler colonial project centered on the pursuit of wealth and ecological exploitation

Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, economy, Health, history, Massachusetts, Massasoit, National Day of Mourning, opinion, Plymouth, Politics, public health, thanksgiving, Wampanoag

GUEST OPINION: VOTE GREEN

Written by MATTHEW ANDREWS Posted October 28, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics

Angela Walker and Howie Hawkins, Green Party candidates for vice president and president

Hawkins-Walker 2020

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics Tagged With: Angela Walker, Election, Election 2020, Green Party, Howie Hawkins, Op-Ed, opinion, Politics, president, presidential, third party, usa, vice president, vote, voting

GUEST OPINION (COMIC): RAH-RAH FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

Written by PATRICK L. KENNEDY Posted October 28, 2020 Filed Under: Comics, NEWS+OPINIONS

"We couldn't make it to the White House any other way"

Filed Under: Comics, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: comics, Elections, news to us, opinion

NO LEGAL JUSTICE WITHOUT ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Written by BILL SHELTON Posted September 15, 2020 Filed Under: Essay, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Income Inequality. Photo by mSeattle CC-BY-2.0.

Bridging the chasm between law enforcement and justice, part 4

Filed Under: Essay, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criticism, history, justice, law enforcement, opinion, Police, sociology

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SAFETY NET. IT’S A SIEVE INSTEAD.

Written by MARK GRUETER Posted August 14, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Massachusetts unemployment

How could this happen? We are the wealthiest country in the world by far, and our unemployment system was supposed to be able to weather an economic crisis.

Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID, news, news to us, opinion

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